Scope and Contents Contains topical drafts and publication/presentation files for Volume 3/Parts 1-2 of his Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, printed in 2019. This includes drafts and proofs of introduction and background/setup material, article and presentation drafts (his own and those of his collaborator, Stanford Carmack), loose printed signatures (trimmed and untrimmed), PDFs, drafts of the alphabetical topical sections oof the book (specific words and phrases as well as grammatical...

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Contains materials related to the publication of Part 5 of Volume 3 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes printed signatures, proofs and corrections, PDFs, introduction material, topical sections, collation and sorting files, etc. Materials dated 2005-2019.

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Contains writing and publication materials for Volume 3, Part 6 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, including introductory material, formatting details, chapter and topical section files (graphemes, capitalization, spacing, hypens, punctuation, etc.), background information on Book of Mormon scribes, analysis of misspellings, PDFs, index cards, reviews, final versions, uncut signatures, etc. Materials dated 2006-2020.

Scope and Contents Contains materials in preparation for the publication of Parts 3 and 4 of Volume 3 of Royal Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series; includes lectures, index cards, lists of words and phrases, conference and symposium papers (Skousen's as well as his peers'), structure and editing files, corrections, introduction material, alphabetical topical files (grammar, syntax, vocabulary, phonology, etc.), work of/with collaborator Stanford Carmack, background information on Joseph Smith...

Scope and Contents Contains research notes and lesson outlines for Gospel Doctrine and other religious study classes Skousen taught on all of the standard works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as an Austin Institute of Religion class on "Mormonism and Modern Scientific Thought," and a Sunday School course on "The Prophets." Includes outlines for the occasional fireside, a leaflet on scientific evidence for creation (issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior), Gospel Doctrine...

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Typewritten and signed letters written to Frank S. Hawkins. Smith responds to Hawkins' requests for information largely relating to the Doctrine and Covenants. Also included is a list of wives of the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), compiled by Alvin Smith. These were women sealed to the prophet during his lifetime.

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Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, addressed to E. Jay Bell of Provo, Utah, and dated 5 Feb. 1972. Tucker writes about the Mormon Church publications, the "Book of Commandments" and the "Doctrine and Covenants." He also tells about the difficulties the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, had in getting the "Book of Commandments" published.